a dance piece & dancers

Two dance works in one evening:

a dance piece

a dance piece began from a wish to make a work that would be easily categorized as dance. "How hard can it be to make 15 minutes of movement?" I naively asked myself. As it turns out, it can be incredibly challenging. Those fifteen minutes turned into a creation that brought me face to face with thirty years of dance demons, with my first love and with my dreams, past, present and future.

Choreography, Text and Performance: Ori Lenkinski

Artistic Advisor: Rachel Erdos

Outside Eyes: Anat Cederbaum, Renana Raz, Jean Gaudin, Shahar Shpalter Music: Anne Muller, Brad Oberhofer, Sinead O Brien

Photos: Natasha Shakhnes, Dieter Hartwig and Bartlomiej Van Soma

The creation received support from the Rabinovich Foundation, the Tel Aviv Municipality and the Choreographers’ Association.

dancers

Is a dance piece for five women at the beginning of their professional careers.

These dancers finished their apprenticeship period this year at the Re-Search Professional Dance Training Program.

An apprenticeship, or “stag”, is a common phase for dancers around the world — a moment during which they cross over from being students to professionals. In this interim stage, the dancers are not paid for their work.

We began “dancers” with a desire to explore and expand the materials of “a dance piece” — a solo creation about dance and love that premiered in 2023 — into a group work.

As we began the process, we realized that no money was being exchanged in our work.

Together, we wondered whether that fact meant our work was less a professional endeavor and more a beloved hobby.

These reflections became the foundation of “dancers.” 

Choreography and Text: Ori Lenkinski in collaboration with the dancers Chen Jackson, Elinor Goldberg, Shaked Kenan, Tamar Tavor, Shoval Yehezkel.

Music: Mary Lattimore, Marie Davidson, Brad Oberhofer, Sebastian Selke, The Flying Lizards.

Thank You to Or Marin, Oran Nahum, Re-Search Professional Dance

Training Program, May Reznikov

Photos: Ori Lenkinski

‘dancers’ is a co-production between the Re-Feel Collective and Ori Lenkinski.

Ori Lenkinski